Re: <sys/select.h> on OSF/1

From:

Paolo Bonzini

Subject:

Re: <sys/select.h> on OSF/1

Date:

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:01:47 +0200

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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On OSF/1 4.0, <sys/select.h> exists but provides only a forward declaration
>> of 'struct timeval', no definition of this type.
>
> Sigh. So it seems we need a sys_select header module and a separate
> select function after all: someone might want to get the 'struct
> timeval' structure out of sys/select.h without calling the select
> function.
I don't think so. It just means that the "self-containedness" test of
sys/select.h fails by mistake.
What about this patch? Bruno, can you give it a try on OSF/1?
Paolo